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Tommy is a burglar who's not so good at pulling off heists. It can be assumed that Tommy has gone through many failed attempts of thievery, since he is a recurring patient throughout the series(AS1, AS Hospital, and AS2.)

While attempting to steal from the empty warehouse, Tommy somehow stumbled through a glass window, falling onto the floor right in front of newbie surgeon Alan Probe and mentor Dr. Bleed. Excited to see a potential patient, Alan goes up to him and offers him a glass extraction.

In the post-op cutscene, he states that he recognizes Dr. Bleed, implying that he might have been a former patient of Bleed's while the Old Hospital was still active.

Neither the brightest nor talented of thieves, the patient is more of a danger himself than to anyone's jewels, family or otherwise. Patient has taken a nasty fall through a window while failing to burgle a largely empty warehouse. Several extractions required to fix the pain in the glass.

Not much is known about Tommy. However he seems to have a sense of humor, even cracking jokes at his own mishaps, along with a touch of persistence. He is always seen in a hoodie, cap and jeans with a blindfold with holes cut in it to act as a mask. If one looks at his front view during pre-op, he appears to have a few gold teeth.

Comparison of Tommy throughout different titles

In AS2, Tommy had a few teeth missing and one more gold tooth, however in his pre-op for the AS4 remaster he appears to still have them all and the tooth that was gold appears to be normal.

Present only in the first game, Tommy's shoes appear different in the pre-op. He normally has white shoes with black shoelaces, but in the pre-op his shoes appear black with white soles and shoelaces.

A straightforward extraction. Use the tongs to pull out the several glass pieces around Tommy's body, along with stapling and cauterizing various cuts. The only other area where you'll have to repeat these steps is his lungs.

Acting as one of the tutorial levels of the game, there are a few cuts on Tommy's body that must be cauterized and healed. Then the player will have to extract pieces of glass when making the first incision into him.

In AS2, this would be the only area the player could venture into. However in AS4, an extra area was added, possibly so then Tommy's surgery would not be so short. This area is his heart, where there is a small cut, a large one and four hidden glass shards inside. The player must use the scanner to locate them, then poke them out with the pizza cutter to expose them. The glass can then be extracted.

There's an unused sprite of Tommy from Amateur Surgeon's files (refer to example at right).

In Amateur Surgeon 3, one of the patients in Mumbo Jungle is named Tammy Gracefuls, a tomb raider who shares the same surname as Tommy Gracefuls. Tammy stated that she has a brother. Given that information, it is possible that these two characters are brother and sister. It is most likely, considering their tendencies to injure themselves in an attempt to gain riches of any kind.

Elder Tommy acts as the fourth patient in Amateur Surgeon 4's Cyber Showdown Blood Cup. Though he's been given some cyber modifications to his body, he still fails at his "profession", for he injures himself whilst trying to swipe the Blood Cup trophy.

He also makes a small appearance in the 3rd surgery for the Through the Ages Blood Cup, well his neanderthal counterpart anyway, named Tommy Rockpiles. Then another counterpart is revealed to be the 4th patient, who goes by the surname GROKKF1LE5. He possesses even more cybernetic modifications than his elder counterpart from Cyber Showdown, sporting an interesting spiky neon blue haircut.

In the game Amateur Ninja, there are several portraits of Tommy that can be found hanging on the walls of different levels. He also appears on the Amateur Surgeon arcade machines throughout the game (the same ones from Amateur Surgeon Hospital).